The journal
A curated selection from the Moniqs archive, newest first. More stories are being moved over from the original site.
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Must we be fearless to be brave? Mark Twain’s words and Felix Nussbaum’s haunting Fear invite us to look beyond confidence and discover a more vulnerable kind of courage, expressed through tenderness, human connection and the act of making art.
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Remembering how it was and wondering how it will be… 2020 made us aware of the fragility of our existence. I wish everyone a safe and happy 2021.
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“I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.” SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR, AN EXISTENTIALIST FEMINIST I was 15 when I discovered Simone de Beauvoir, who was already a well-known writer and avant-garde…
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Emma Justine Farnsworth ~ At Dusk, 1894 A confinement in body …not in soul. What started 5 weeks ago as a horrible time for me due to the Coronavirus and being in confinement turned out to be a useful period I really…
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THE SURREALITY/REALITY OF GIORGIO MORANDI. Giorgio Morandi (1890 -1964) was an Italian painter and printmaker. “There is nothing more surreal, nothing more abstract than reality.”
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WILLIAM BOUGUEREAU AND HIS PASSION FOR PAINTING “Each day I go to my studio full of joy; in the evening when obliged to stop because of darkness I can scarcely wait for the morning to come… My work is not only a pleasure, it has become a necessity. No matter how many other things
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The exotic world of Henri Rousseau “When…I see the strange plants of exotic lands, it seems to me that I enter into a dream.” Henri Rousseau (1844-1910) Henri Rousseau one of France’s best realist painters? It is very funny that Rousseau painted all these exotic landscapes while
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“Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.” Claude Monet Palazzo da Mula in Venice 1908
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“An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.” Henri Matisse
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“Although the dream is a very strange phenomenon and an inexplicable mystery, far more inexplicable is the mystery and aspect our minds confer on certain objects and aspects of life.” Giorgio de Chirico Painting: The two Sisters – (the Jewish Angel)
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Silent Whisper Photo by Monique Lucy Weberink 2016
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I wish I could do whatever I liked behind the curtain of “madness”. Then: I’d arrange flowers, all day long, I’d paint; pain, love and tenderness, I would laugh as much as I feel like at the stupidity of others, and they would all say: “Poor thing, she’s crazy!” (Above all I woul
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